The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) on Wednesday sounded the alarm over the health status of three minor detainees infected with mumps in the Israeli Ofer jail.

PPS said the Israeli prison service isolated the three detainees in a separate cell after they caught a mumps virus. PPS identified the detainees as Mustafa al-Kadhi, Muayad Abu Ghazaleh (both from al-Khalil) and Abdullah Surur (from Ramallah).

162 Palestinian minors are locked up in the Israeli Ofer prison. Meanwhile, PPS lawyer sounded the alarm over the sharp deterioration rocking the health status of prisoners Ayad al-Hreimi and Malek al-Kadhi, who have been on an open-ended hunger strike since July 15 in protest at their administrative detention.

Al-Hreimi was reportedly rushed to the prison clinic, where the Israeli doctors tried to force him to drink water and sugar after he lost consciousness and fell over.

Hreimi firmly refused to succumb to the doctors' threats. The detainee was quoted as stating that he fell on the ground as the prison guards transferred him from the prison cell via a wheelchair and at a very high speed.

He added that the Israeli prison authorities continue to mistreat Palestinian hunger-strikers so as to dampen their high spirits. Prisoner Malek al-Kadhi was also quoted as sounding a cry for help over the excruciating pains hitting his body.

The Israeli occupation forces arrested prisoner al-Hreimi on December 21, 2015 and Malek al-Kadhi on May 23, 2016.

The Israeli Knesset approved, in both second and third readings, the bill of arresting Palestinian children, below 14 years, alleging that they are "terrorists".

Israeli channel seven on Wednesday said that the bill states that “No minor less than 14 years shall be imprisoned, but a temporary amendment can be offered to a term of three years by which prison sentences can be reduced for minors who are convicted with manslaughter or attempted murder, and when they reach the age of 14, they can be held in a prison under supervision.”

The channel underlined that the endorsement of the bill was done in the third reading of the law 32 of the Knesset. It was objected by 16 members and one member refrained from voting, it added.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that Israeli soldiers have kidnapped, on Tuesday evening at dawn Wednesday, ten Palestinians, including children, in al-Eesawiyya and Silwan towns, and the at-Tour village, in occupied East Jerusalem.

The PPS stated that the soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the al-‘Eesawiyya town, searched several homes, and kidnapped a child, identified as Anas Mafarja.

8-year-old Anwar Burqan was playing with her siblings on a road closed off to Palestinians; Border Policemen seen scaring her away and throwing her bicycle into nearby bushes.

The Border Police has suspended a soldier who was documented taking a Palestinian girl's bicycle from her and throwing it into nearby bushes.

Anwar Burqan, an eight year old Palestinian girl, lives in a-Salaimeh neighborhood in Hebron, near the Cave of the Patriarchs.

On Monday of last week, she was playing with her siblings on a road not far from her home that is meant for the exclusive use of Jews and that Palestinians are barred from entering.

The Border Policeman is seen in the video running towards the girl, an act that scared her, leading her to get off her bike. He is heard asking her "What are you doing here?" causing the girl to burst out in tears.

The Border Policeman is seen stepping over the bicycle, preventing the girl from taking it. When another Border Policeman arrives, the girl is seen running away in tears, leaving her bicycle behind.

One of the Border Policemen is then seen picking up the bike and throwing it into nearby bushes.

"He ran towards me, tried to take my bike away and then told us to leave," Anwar said.

The girl's mother said Anwar ran back home, and later one of the family members returned to the road to retrieve the bicycle.

Raed Abu Ramileh, who lives nearby, documented the incident for B'Tselem. "The policemen took her bicycle away and threw them aside, but they didn't hit or hurt the girl," he said. "On this road there is complete separation between Palestinians and Jews for a few months now, after a roadblock was set up."

The Border Police said in response that it "views the incident gravely and regrets it. At the end of an initial investigation, the Border Police commander instructed to immediately suspend the soldier from operational duty," adding that the Police Investigation Unit that will take over the investigation of the incident.

On Sunday, 31st July 2016, Israeli forces in the Old City Palestinian market (souq), in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron), were searching for a group of three Palestinian boys. Claiming they were throwing stones, Israeli searched for them in order to arrest and incarcerate them.

A group of Israeli soldiers went into the Palestinian market on the search for the children, stopping any child they encountered on their way that, more or less, fit the age-group of around 10-14 years old.

They stopped and questioned a 12-year old boy at Bab al-Baladiyya, one of the entrance and exit-points for the soldiers to enter from the illegal settlements located on Shuhada Street, into the Palestinian market.

Without any family or a lawyer present, the soldiers questioned the boy, first claiming that he was throwing stones and threatening to arrest him, and take him to the police station.

Only because of the intervention of a local, the boy wasn’t kidnapped by Israeli forces, who eventually admitted that the video-evidence they had was not even showing him. Still, they claimed that he was there and thus were attempting to force him into giving information.

After they finally allowed the boy to leave, they arbitrarily stopped any child that fit their age group to question them about their whereabouts and where they were going, even entering a Palestinian shop to interrogate a child.

After about half an hour, they gave up their search, but approached human rights observers to ‘justify’ their behaviour, showing them a video, on a phone that showed a boy throwing small stones at a securely fenced military tower, without any possibility of the pebbles even hurting anyone. Despite only one boy found to be throwing these small stones, Israeli forces were out looking for all the three children in the video.

Israeli forces ‘justified’ their search for the children to the human rights observers, stating that because of what can be seen in the video, they went out to look for ‘a boy in a white T-Shirt’ – despite the boy in the video clearly wearing a green T-Shirt. In spite of both these facts, they stopped and interrogated any child loosely fitting the age-group of around 10-14.

In the evening, Israeli forces again entered the market, to stop, harass and question children fitting this age-group, and another arrest of an arbitrarily picked child could only be prevented by the intervention of a local.

The fact that the arrest of any children under the age of 12 is illegal, even under Israeli military law which applies to all Palestinians in the West Bank, did not bother the soldiers. Despite the boy in the video is clearly less than 12 years old, they went out to hunt down children that are below the legal age for arrest, even under apartheid military law, the orders in clear violation of not only international law, but even Israeli military law.

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy sustained a broken hand and heavy bruising after being assaulted and detained by undercover Israeli police officers in the Issawiya neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.

Fadi Rafat al-Issawi was detained last Sunday when two Israeli undercover police officers in civilian clothing stopped to ask him and his friend Mustafa Abu al-Hummus for directions, before the officers assaulted the two minors and detained them for allegedly throwing rocks, according to a member of the village's monitoring committee Muhammad Abu al-Hummus.

Abu al-Hummus told Ma’an that during a court hearing held for the two minors, Israeli authorities said three cars raided the village and detained the two "in order to limit rock-throwing incidents."

Fadi was sent away to Beit Hanina, a neighborhood north of his home in Issawiya, where he was placed under house arrest. It remained unclear with whom al-Issawi was staying.

Fadi’s mother told Ma’an he suffered from medical negligence while in Israeli police custody, and was only taken to hospital at 11 p.m. despite being arrested in the afternoon, and despite suffering from apparent fractures, bruising, and pain.

His mother added that the family was prevented from visiting Fadi when they were called to the hospital an hour later. After Fadi finished his treatment at 2 a.m., he was placed in a police car where he remained until 6 a.m.

Israeli police did not provide him with painkillers or antibiotics as doctors had recommended, according to Fadi's mother, and they ignored his treatment during the three days he spent at Jerusalem’s Russian Compound police station and detention center.

She added that Fadi’s family took him to a hospital after he was released, where his cast had to be redone, and doctors said his hand might need to undergo surgery. Doctors also revealed that Fadi sustained a minor hairline fracture in his nose and an infection in his mouth after being hit in the face.

The detentions came as the latest arrests in an ongoing crackdown on Palestinian children by Israeli police in East Jerusalem, as Palestinian communities in the occupied city have begun to feel the impact of Israeli legislation passed between 2014 and 2015 increasing penalties for rock throwing, which allows for stone-throwers to receive a 20-year prison sentence where intent to harm could be proven, and 10 years where it could not.

Rights group Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP) cited in a report on Wednesday a number of recent cases of Palestinian minors being handed prison sentences for periods ranging between 12 to 39 months, with up to three years’ probation.

Israeli police spokesperson Luba al-Samri said in a recent statement amid the arrest campaign of Palestinian youth that “some of them admitted during interrogation that they threw stones at Israeli vehicles and police patrols on the roads to Maale Adumim,” referring to a nearby illegal Israeli settlement.

However, the widespread arrests have put a spotlight on the well-documented abuse of Palestinians children by Israeli forces and the harsh interrogation practices used to force their confessions, which has long been the target of criticism by the international community.

Despite “on paper” having more rights than Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank who are subject to a draconian military detention system, in practice, Jerusalem minors “do not enjoy their enshrined rights” under the Israeli civilian court system, according to DCIP.

Out of 65 cases documented by DCIP in 2015, "more than a third of Jerusalem youth were arrested at night (38.5 percent), the vast majority (87.7 percent) were restrained during arrest, and only a slim minority of children (10.8 percent) had a parent or lawyer present during interrogation."

According to affidavits taken by DCIP for last week’s report documenting the recent arrests and sentencing of Palestinian minors for rock throwing, two of the teenagers “both had maintained their innocence and confessed only after they had experienced physical and psychological abuse.”

The youth described being kicked and punched while handcuffed, choked, and having a door slammed in their face.

Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Accountability Program director at DCIP was quoted in the report as saying: “The changes in the penal code and policy guidelines since 2014 are discriminatory and target Palestinians, specifically youth. Israel is a signatory to the Convention of the Rights of the Child and we call on them to uphold their responsibilities.”

Interrogations of Palestinian children can last up to 90 days according to prisoners’ rights group Addameer, during which in addition to being beaten and threatened, cases of sexual assault and placement in solitary confinement to elicit confessions are also often reported, while confession documents they are forced to sign are in Hebrew -- a language most Palestinian children do not speak.

Israeli forces detained 52 Palestinians -- including 11 minors -- overnight Tuesday after raiding communities just south of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City, amid a massive detention campaign targeting Palestinian youth in the area, a day after some 30 Palestinians families in East Jerusalem were left homeless by Israeli authorities-enforced home demolitions.

Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said in a statement that Israeli police detained 52 Palestinians in the Silwan and Ras al-Amoud neighborhoods overnight. The campaign, she said, was called "the 700" because 700 Israeli police officers were involved in the crackdown.

She added that hundreds of Israeli police and border guard officers were joined by representatives of Israel's national insurance institute and Jerusalem municipality officers. Locals reported at least one military helicopter circling over occupied East Jerusalem during the raids as backup.

The detainees, al-Samri said, were suspected of crimes including stone throwing, drug dealing, and theft.

According to a lawyer from prisoners’ rights group Addameer, Mohammad Mahmoud, the detainees were taken to the Russian Compound police station and a police station on Salah al-Din street in East Jerusalem.

A statement released Wednesday by Palestinian Prisoner’s Society identified 33 of the detained.

Jerusalem police have conducted widespread detention raids in recent weeks in occupied east Jerusalem, in connection to alleged stone-throwing incidents targeting Israeli border police and settlers in the area, particularly at the Old City’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as well as at Israeli vehicles traveling between the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya and Maale Adumin -- a massive illegal Israeli settlement bloc just a few kilometers east in the occupied West Bank.

Al-Samri said in a statement last week that police detained at least nine young Palestinian suspects from Issawiya throughout the week, including five minors between the ages of 15 and 17 years old.

“Some of them admitted during interrogation that they threw stones at Israeli vehicles and police patrols on the roads to Maale Adumim,” al-Samri said.

The crackdown on Jerusalemite youth comes on the heels of newly approved changes to Israeli legislation increasing the penalty for stone throwing in 2014 and 2015, which rights groups say specifically target young Palestinians for crimes that Israeli Jews are rarely held accountable for.

Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP) wrote in a report on Wednesday that Palestinian youth convicted of throwing stones in Jerusalem were already starting to feel the effects of the changes in legislation, citing a number of recent cases of Palestinian minors being handed prison sentences for periods ranging between 12 to 39 months.

According to affidavits taken by DCIP, two of the teenagers “both had maintained their innocence and confessed only after they had experienced physical and psychological abuse.”

Meanwhile, some 30 Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem neighborhoods -- according to the PLO’s count -- were left homeless in a single day on Tuesday, in one the most extensive demolition onslaughts in the city in recent years.

In village of Qalandiya, located just beyond Israel’s separation wall in the occupied West Bank north of Jerusalem, Israeli forces destroyed 12 homes for lacking the proper Israeli-issued licences because they were built "too close to the wall," sparking violent clashes that left at least seven injured by Israeli rubber-coated steel bullets, tear-gas, and physical assault.

At least five other structures were demolished in Issawiya and Ras al-Amoud.

Palestinian areas in occupied East Jerusalem have seen an influx of Israeli settlers at the cost of home demolitions, the eviction of Palestinian families, as well as a heightened presence of Israeli forces and discriminatory policing.

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, the town of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, before storming and violently searching dozens of homes and kidnapped 33 Palestinians. The soldiers also kidnapped one Palestinian in Sheikh Jarrah.

The Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan (Silwanic) has reported that the soldiers, and security officers, invaded various neighborhoods in the town, after completely surrounding it, and initiated massive, violent, searches of homes.

Silwanic added that most of the 33 kidnapped Palestinians are children, in addition to several former political prisoners.

The soldiers also interrogated many Palestinians, including entire families, while violently searching their homes.

Military helicopters were seen flying over various neighborhoods in Silwad, while the home invasions were largely focused in the neighborhoods in Ras al-‘Amoud, the Central Neighborhood, Ein Silwan, Be’er Ayyoub, Wad Qaddoum, al-Bustan and Wad ar-Rababa.

The soldiers also summoned at least five Palestinians for interrogation in a number of detention and interrogation centers in Jerusalem.

Lawyer Mohammad Mahmoud told Silwanic that the soldiers moved the kidnapped Palestinians to a police station in Salaheddin Street, in addition to the al-Maskobiyya detention and interrogation center. They have been identified as: